Grand Prairie Elementary in St. Landry Parish is on lockdown Friday morning after a threat was made against the school on social media.
A spokesman for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office said deputies have detained a 10-year-old; the child did not have a gun or any other means of carrying out the threat, he said.
Resource officers and deputies are on the scene now, and are working to determine if any other children were involved. It is described as a threat, and "not an active incident," the spokesman said.
The investigation began when school officials were notified of the social media threat. At the same time, Louisiana State Police let the sheriff's office know that several threats had been made throughout Louisiana.
"Deputies deployed immediately and the school was on lockdown for a brief period until it was learned the responsible party was a 10 year-old student," a spokesman for the sheriff office says.
The 10-year-old was booked with terrorizing and is being processed through the juvenile court system.
